Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts41. Registers to be kept
(1) The Director shall keep 2 registers, to be known respectively as the Public Register of Escort Agency Licences and the Private Register of Escort Agency Licences.
(2) On the grant of an operator's licence, the Director shall enter in such of the registers as the Commission directs in accordance with subsection (3) -
(a) the name of the licensee, and the name and address of the business to which the licence relates (or, if more than one, of each such business); and
(b) full details of the licence (including any conditions or restrictions to which the licence is subject),
and on the grant of a manager's licence, the Director shall enter the like particulars and details in the register in which the relevant operator's licence is registered.
(3) In deciding what direction to give for the purposes of subsection (2), the Commission shall, unless in the circumstances of a particular case it considers it desirable to depart therefrom, observe the principle that a licence should be entered in the Public Register if the number of persons by whom it is intended that prostitution services should be provided on a regular basis (including a regular part-time basis) exceeds 3, and in the Private Register if that number is 3 or less.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), the Director shall enter in the register in which details of a licence are for the time being registered -
(a) the prescribed particulars contained in any application for renewal of the licence, and details of the Commission's decision on the application;
(b) details of any other decision of the Commission with respect to the licence; and
(c) details of any appeal under this Part with respect to the licence, and of the results of any such appeal.
(5) Where a licence ceases to be in force for any reason other than its suspension, the Director shall remove from the register all entries relating to the licence (but, in the case of the cancellation of a licence by the Commission, not until such time as no right of appeal, or further appeal, lies under this Part in respect of the cancellation).
(6) If it appears to the Commission to be necessary to do so having regard to the principle referred to in subsection (3), or to be desirable to do so for any other reason, the Commission may direct the Director to transfer the entries relating to a licence from one register to the other.
(7) For the purposes of subsection (3), where the licensee of the operator's licence under consideration is the holder of one or more other operator's licences, the total number of persons by whom it is intended that prostitution services should be provided under that licence and the other licence or licences shall be taken into account in determining whether, for the purposes of the licence under consideration, the number of persons exceeds 3.